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THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

The map is not the territory

map ≠ territory
nature
No representation is the thing represented. A word is not its referent, a model is not the system, a diagnosis is not the person, and this sentence is not the idea it points at.

The axiom. Everyone assents to it instantly and then violates it in the next sentence, which is why the corpus needed eight hundred pages and a wooden apparatus.
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sephirahmalkhut
whyMalkhut is the territory itself — the world that receives every description and is never exhausted by one.
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axiom · korzybski
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